Reply To: "Up and back" – the same as "back and forth?"

I never heard of it. What does it mean?

It is used to mean “back and forth.” (In some of the Google results, “up” was more literal, as in [not actual text] “I have to go to the mountains tomorrow, but I think I can get up and back in one day,” which isn’t quite the same thing. The uses I was referring to were more like “R’ Yankel went up and back for an hour.”)

You are a very chashuv yid.

Because I went to hear someone speak, and opened a biography?